Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Doll collectors, and Dolls
I met Diane for the first time a couple years ago at my first doll auction. My auction buddy Janet and I had driven to an auction house not far from Philadelphia that was having…
When I saw “The Trip to Bountiful” back in 1985 with Geraldine Page, I found the movie plodding. Page’s portrayal of Carrie Watts was both sweet and sad, but I thought the play itself was…
In my mind, Doc Holliday was a gunslinger, one of the men who left behind a string of real and embellished legacies that were way from spotless. So when I was trolling the list of…
Posted in Black history, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Photos
I went looking for the tintypes and Cabinet cards of photos of African Americans. I knew that we helped to settle the West – even though I never learned that in history class – so…
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Reader questions
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
The brown doll was so precious that Annette took it wherever she went. She slept with it, hauled it to boarding school with her, and kept it by her side through all of her family’s traveling…
They were loving each other at a time when it was taboo in his country. But the couple in the photographs did not betray any hint of the turmoil that their love could cause them…
Fridays at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Posted in Doll collectors, and Dolls
For a long time, Sarah Robinson hid her dolls, kept them a secret from most folks who knew her. She piled them up on a bed in a bedroom in her home and never ever…
